I have a deal where file1.php curl runs file2.php. file2.php is a long running file, but it sends(or is supposed to send) a response back to file1.php then carry on with it's code. I am using output buffer to try sending this data, but the problem is if I 'return;' right after the flush; file1.php receives the response just fine, but when I try to keep file2.php running, file1.php never receives the response, what I am doing wrong? Is there a different way I must send the response back to file1.php?
// file1.php
$url = "file2.php"
$params = array('compurl'=>$compurl,'validatecode'=>$validatecode);
$options = array(
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true, // return web page
CURLOPT_HEADER => true, // return headers
CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true, // follow redirects
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "", // handle all encodings
CURLOPT_USERAGENT => "Mozilla", // who am i
CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER => true, // set referer on redirect
CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT => 120, // timeout on connect
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10, // stop after 10 redirects
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 10, // don't wait too long
CURLOPT_POST => true, // Use Method POST (not GET)
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => http_build_query($params)
);
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt_array( $ch, $options );
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
echo $response;
// file2.php
ob_start();
echo 'Running in the background.';
// get the size of the output
$size = ob_get_length();
header("HTTP/1.1 200 OK"); // I have tried without this
header("Date: " . date('D, j M Y G:i:s e')); // Tried without this
header("Server: Apache"); // Tried without this
header('Connection: close');
header('Content-Encoding: none');
header("Content-Length: $size");
header("Content-Type: text/html"); // Tried without this
// flush all output
ob_end_flush();
ob_flush();
flush();
// If I add return; here file1.php gets the response just fine
// But I need file2.php to keep processing stuff and if I remove the
// return; file1.php never gets a response.